It has thrived on the outsourcing by car firms of complex components and on the burgeoning demand for four-wheel-drive transmissions.
And then there is the nuclear complex where warhead components are manufactured, refurbished and dismantled.
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Many highly successful breakthroughs also go largely unnoticed because the specialize in components or complex software.
This conversion process creates a complex system of multiple components held to tight tolerances making manufacturing more challenging.
Sequencing is a method of breaking down complex problems into actionable components.
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Waechter has been moving JDSU from selling individual components to increasingly complex systems that carry higher margins.
The computations for multiple investment components become more complex.
The lesson of all of this is that by taking apart the components of a complex problem and making each part simpler and easier, you can help people create sequences of actions that will build new habits and defeat old one.
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Lewis brought in two programmers from his old chip company and imposed a design process akin to one for building a chip, focusing on small components to deliver their complex product.
The automaker still buys steel from outside suppliers, but when it comes to complex curved body panels or important structural components, the company prefers to use its own recipes.
The automaker still buys some basic steel from outside suppliers, but when it comes to complex curved body panels or important structural components, the company prefers to use its own steel.
Through this process, the carpenter can determine all the components before they are built, however complex they are, and thus be sure that all the assemblies will fit together perfectly when the timber frame is built.
The new study involves a complex method that requires women to donate eggs, and a demanding manipulation of cell components on a tiny scale, Daley said.
Both Endy and UC, Berkeley's Keasling say that unless basic components are made freely available it will be too expensive to make anything useful or complex.
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The math for doing this can get complex for the individual investor, since the overall volatility of the portfolio depends upon how the individual components behave in relation to one another.
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